Shaken Forget chefs. Barmen are the new rock stars of the taste world.
From Cape Town to Singapore and back down under, globe-trotting Australian Luke Whearty leads the pack. Y ou’d be forgiven you thought you were hear Luke Whearty talk about cocktails. Whearty, a long-haired listening to a Michelin- starred chef when you Australian with the kind of relaxed deconstructed style that would be at home anywhere from Kreuzberg to Fitzroy to Bali is extolling the natural wealth of South Africa from behind the bar in his latest venture, Outrage of Modesty (OOM*), in Cape Town. The name Outrage of Modesty is an official police offense in Singapore where Whearty has another acclaimed bar, Operation Dagger.
PHOTOGRAPHED BY WARREN HEATH WRITTEN BY TUDOR CARADOC-DAVIES
The entrance to the bar displays pink neon lettering designed by Luke
FOOD BY ARTISAN COCKTAILS STYLED BY SVEN ALBERDING
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